October's Child

juthikaforpresident:

Gandhi is not India.

Gandhi was not a perfect man. He tried to freed India, but he wasn’t the only one.

The Indian uprising was filled with tons of bloody revolts, outright massacres (Jallanwalia Bagh, anyone?), and it was not only non-violence that got freedom from India. Gandhi succeeded where others failed because of his status in India, not essentially because of his politics.

It irritates me when people say I have to idolize Gandhi because he freed me as a Bangladeshi citizen from British colonialism, because no, he wasn’t the only one. Nehru, Mujib, Bhagat Singh, Tagore, Udham Singh, many other brown men and women stood together and fought a bloody fucking battle to get our independence. Not only that, but a lot of the conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims was because of the British trying to pin blame on either side to gain control of Colonial India.

Gandhi was a good man, yes, but he had his faults. I don’t agree with his non-violent stance on things such as the Holocaust and other conflicts that he had no place in. He promoted anti-black values as well. I’m not saying this to discredit the man. I’m telling you this because I’m sick of being told that Gandhi was the only man that saved India. I haven’t even touched the politics between Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that tore the country apart and sent millions and millions of innocents to their deaths. There is so much more to Indian history than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

(via ik-arzu)